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Historical Event on 4/26/1946
V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter.
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| 9/30/1900 | Mohommad Ali Chhagla, former central minister, was born. |
| 5/1/1897 | Vivekananda Swami established Ramakrishna Mission. |
| 6/10/1966 | MIG aeroplanes were designed at Nashik. |
| 4/5/1989 | Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died. |
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| 3/24/1944 | Manmohan Singh, famous economist and Finance Minister of India, was born. |
| 6/22/1920 | Chandrasekhar Trimbak Sarwate, cricketer (batted in 9 Tests for India 1946-52), was born in Sangor, Vidarbha. |
| 8/2/1935 | The British pass Govt. of India Act, separating Burma, Aden from India. |
| 4/30/1996 | CBI concludes after 11 1/2 years of investigation that no espionage has taken place in what was dubbed the `ISRO spy scandal case'. |
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